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‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
‘Capitulatio…Caroli VI’ (The Hague, 1713), with manuscript notes by Johann Jacob Vitriarius.
'Catalogue of British family histories’ (London, 1935) by Theodore Radford Thomson, interleaved, with corrections and additions by the author.
Copies of Constantinus Harmenopoulos, “Πρόχειρον νόμων” (Paris, 1540), with manuscript notes and annotations by various scholars.
Seven copies of “Πρόχειρον νόμων, sive epitome juris civilis" with marginal annotations of collation and correction by various scholars of Esusciluce whose names are noted on each.
Copy of Justinian ‘Institutiones’, edited by Arnold Vinnius (Leyden, 1646), with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.
Also contains notes of Lord George Douglas, to whom Alexander Cuningham was tutor.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.2-3).
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
'Evergreen', 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout.
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
The proofs of the suppressed dissertations (pages 201 bis-240 bis) are included in addition to the four on 'The Natural History of Religion', 'Of the Passions', 'Of Tragedy', and 'Of the Standard of Taste'.
A slip affixed to the fly-leaf has the following in David Hume’s handwriting: 'This Book is to be considered a Manuscript and to deliverd [sic] to Mr. Strahan according to my Will'.
Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
Henry Mackenzie's copy of the "Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian" (Edinburgh, 1805), drawn up by himself; with a few corrections and additions in his hand.
The corrections and additions occur on pages iii-iv, 46, 71-72, 82, 102, and Appendix, page 76.
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’, 5th and 6th editions (Edinburgh, 1723) by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, with manuscript notes and observations.
Interleaved copies of ‘Treatise on the laws concerning the election of the different representatives sent from Scotland to the Parliament of Great Britain’, 2 volumes,(Edinburgh, 1773) by Alexander Wight, with manuscript notes apparently by the author.
John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.
Marginal notes in Wood’s hand at page 41, and what follows, denote those who were freeholders in 1811, and some of the notes (for example at pages 2 and 3) appear to have been added between 1824 and 1829. No significant marks have been added to the pages of either the Advertisement or the Introductory Treatise.
‘Letter to a friend in London; containing observations on the memoir of himself written by James Hogg ... and prefixed to a late edition of the "Mountain Bard"’ (Edinburgh, 1821) by George Goldie, interleaved, with manuscript notes.
The notes are stated (folio 1) to be by James Browne, Doctor of Laws, but they are clearly to be read as the composition of George Goldie himself.